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King Christian Island
King Christian
Island
is an uninhabited member of the
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
in the
Sverdrup Islands
, a part of the
Queen Elizabeth Islands
archipelago
, in the
Qikiqtaaluk Region
of
Nunavut, Canada
. It
lies
in the
Arctic Ocean
, from the
southwestern
coast
of
Ellef Ringnes Island
,
separated
by the
Danish Strait
.
The first
European
to
visit
the island
was
Gunnar Isachsen
in 1901.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
charted its southern coast in
1916
.
The island
has an area of, measures long and wide.